Les goûts et les couleuvres, ça ne se discute pas. Personnellement, je suis bien content de ne pas avoir cette "abstraction" dans Rails et Django.
Pour que chacun puisse juger, voici un petit exemple tiré du manuel [http://www.doctrine-project.org/docs/orm/2.0/en/reference/xml-mapping.html#example] :
[^] # Re: Doctrine2
Posté par Bruno Michel (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche En vrac : Doctrine 2, MySQL 5.5 et VimGolf. Évalué à 2.
Pour que chacun puisse juger, voici un petit exemple tiré du manuel [http://www.doctrine-project.org/docs/orm/2.0/en/reference/xml-mapping.html#example] :
// Doctrine.Tests.ORM.Mapping.User.dcm.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping
http://www.doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd">
<entity name="Doctrine\Tests\ORM\Mapping\User" table="cms_users">
<indexes>
<index name="name_idx" columns="name"/>
<index columns="user_email"/>
</indexes>
<unique-constraints>
<unique-constraint columns="name,user_email" name="search_idx" />
</unique-constraints>
<lifecycle-callbacks>
<lifecycle-callback type="prePersist" method="doStuffOnPrePersist"/>
<lifecycle-callback type="prePersist" method="doOtherStuffOnPrePersistToo"/>
<lifecycle-callback type="postPersist" method="doStuffOnPostPersist"/>
</lifecycle-callbacks>
<id name="id" type="integer" column="id">
<generator strategy="AUTO"/>
<sequence-generator sequence-name="tablename_seq" allocation-size="100" initial-value="1" />
</id>
<field name="name" column="name" type="string" length="50" nullable="true" unique="true" />
<field name="email" column="user_email" type="string" column-definition="CHAR(32) NOT NULL" />
<one-to-one field="address" target-entity="Address" inversed-by="user">
<cascade><cascade-remove /></cascade>
<join-column name="address_id" referenced-column-name="id" on-delete="CASCADE" on-update="CASCADE"/>
</one-to-one>
<one-to-many field="phonenumbers" target-entity="Phonenumber" mapped-by="user">
<cascade>
<cascade-persist/>
</cascade>
<order-by>
<order-by-field name="number" direction="ASC" />
</order-by>
</one-to-many>
<many-to-many field="groups" target-entity="Group">
<cascade>
<cascade-all/>
</cascade>
<join-table name="cms_users_groups">
<join-columns>
<join-column name="user_id" referenced-column-name="id" nullable="false" unique="false" />
</join-columns>
<inverse-join-columns>
<join-column name="group_id" referenced-column-name="id" column-definition="INT NULL" />
</inverse-join-columns>
</join-table>
</many-to-many>
</entity>
</doctrine-mapping>